Detroit-born Ellen Burstyn Was president of her high school’s drama club. But she was not a very good student, and dropped out in her senior year. She became a model
Long before “Punk’d” or “America’s Funniest Home Videos” there was “Candid Camera.” The premise was simple and popular: catch ordinary folks in funny and unusual situations, benign practical jokes as
Ernest Borgnine was a renowned and very popular Oscar and Emmy-winning actor who enjoyed decades of success in Show Business. His success in marriage, however, was very rocky. Ernie was
If you’ve ever watched ”Happy Days,” ”Laverne & Shirley,” ”Mork & Mindy,” or any of a dozen other TV shows, you’ve seen the work of Garry Marshall. If you’ve ever
There are 66 books in the Bible, but none is more controversial, more studied, and more debated than the final book, the book of Revelation. Its author is commonly believed
As a writer and a radio and TV personality in the 1970s, Douglas Adams wasn’t having a great deal of success. That is, until 1978 when he co-created a radio
The smash Broadway play “Hamilton” brought a resurgence of interest in the founding father who helped shape the direction of the young nation. Fifteen years before the play a book
Her story reads something like a Hollywood fairy tale. Talent scouts found Lisa Whelchel in her small town in Texas in 1976, casting for “The New Mickey Mouse Clu” on
The first day of July 1863 was a warm, mostly cloudy summer day in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was the first day of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, one of the
Were you a fan of the TV series “Bones” ? The series followed the professional, and sometimes personal, experiences of forensic pathologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, played by Emily Deschanel. The
